The hardwood season continued in Roane County with a very physical, hard-fought contest between the Cherokee Lady Jackets and the Rockwood Lady Tigers that saw the Lady Jackets eke out a 27-25 win over their in-county rivals.
Cherokee gave the Lady Tigers a blanking in the first period with a 4-0 advantage.
A 6-0 tilt at one point gave Cherokee a 12-6 lead, but the Lady Tigers came roaring back to methodically chop their deficit down to 16-12 at the half.
Rockwood would use an 11-6 swing in the third period to take a 23-22 lead going into the home stretch.

Normally, it’s an investigation into an alleged crime against a child that brings different agencies and volunteers to the Kids First Child Advocacy Center in Loudon County.
This week, they gathered there for a different reason.
“This is a reminder of what we do and why we do it and a special reminder of Clifford Wallace Dotson,” Executive Director Chris Evans-Longmire said. “He will never be forgotten again.”
Clifford, 2, who lived in East Roane County, died in May of what authorities have said was starvation.

An investigation by the District Attorney General’s Office determined there was no wrongdoing in the death of 26-year-old Dustin Barnwell.
However, a lawsuit filed on behalf of his minor daughter alleges there was misconduct on multiple levels.
Barnwell died on Nov. 11, 2011. According to a district attorney report on the investigation, Roane County Sheriff’s officers Richard Stooksbury and Mitch Grigsby responded to Barnwell’s home on Roane Manor Drive on an overdose complaint.

Alcohol may be involved in a fiery two-vehicle crash on Interstate 40 in Knoxville last Friday. Five people were injured.
Witnesses told police that Oliver Butler, 64, of Rockwood, was traveling westbound on I-40 when he swerved across the median and his GMC van became airborne.
They said it landed on a Mercedes SUV, then overturned and caught fire.
Passersby who pulled Butler from the vehicle said they smelled alcohol, and officers found beer cans inside and outside the van.

By MIKE GIBSONnewsroom@roanecounty.com
While it may be true that miracles happen all the time, Kingston City Council members aren’t concerned with signs from above.
They’re worried about the more terrestrial versions you see every day — on the side of the road, in store windows, on big billboards, in the beds of broken-down old trucks.
And at a Nov. 6 work session, council moved to put the first reading of an ordinance amending its existing sign ordinance for a vote in the full council session this week.